title: Arginine-responsive terbium luminescent hybrid sensors triggered by two crown ether carboxylic acids.
abstract: Crown ether carboxylic acids constitute main building blocks for the synthesis of terbium containing covalent cross-linked luminescent materials. Both the complexes and the hybrid nanomaterials could exhibit remarkable green emissions in pure water. More importantly, they were found to have a profound effect on the luminescence responses to arginine compared with glutamic acid, histidine, tryptophan, threonine, tyrosine and phenylalanine in aqueous environment. The present study provided the possibility of using a host-guest mechanism as a way of signal transduction based on lanthanide supramolecular hybrid materials.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry of Environment, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; School of Chemistry and Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
authors.forename: Lasheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Qianming
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D001120:Arginine / Q000032:analysis*; D002264:Carboxylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D056831:Coordination Complexes / Q000737:chemistry; D043844:Crown Ethers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry; D013725:Terbium / Q000737:chemistry*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D002264:Carboxylic Acids; D056831:Coordination Complexes; D043844:Crown Ethers; D014867:Water; D013725:Terbium; D001120:Arginine
keywords: Arginine; Covalent; Crown ether; Quenching; Terbium